Cade Scoggins Heart Transplant

Hi All,

This Go Fund Me is being set up for Cade Scoggins. He's a 21-year-old young man from Banks County, GA. The week of Christmas Cade had been sick and went to Urgent Care. He didn't get any better and went to the 2nd Urgent Care location. They said he had pneumonia and a little bit of fluid on his lungs. On December 22, 2022, the ER called his mom, Yonah and said if he still wasn't any better she need to get him to the ER. Once his Papa got him there, he was having a very hard time breathing. After blood work and testing, they told him he was in Congestive Heart Failure and less than 20% of his heart is working. After multiple episodes of extremely low blood pressure, fluid built up, lots of doctor appointments and uncertainty they decided Monday 1/31/2023 to go to Emory for a 2nd opinion. Once arriving at Emory Cade had severely low blood pressure and trouble breathing. After assessment by the doctors there, they moved him to ICU. They were planning to insert a PA catheterization but found a blood clot near the place where the PA Cath would be inserted. They had to hold off on that. As of today, they are doing an MRI with contrast to check the blood clot. There are 2 options. If the blood clot is gone or they can work around it, they will insert the PA Cath to monitor his heart and keep the medication stabilized until he can get a heart transplant OR insert the LVAD Implant until he can get a heart transplant. Either way, Cade will need a heart transplant.

Cade is an awesome guy. I'm sure you all think as much of him as our family does. He's super respectful, hardworking, loyal, caring, and easygoing...Just an all-around good guy.

As you can imagine, there will be lots of costs. He will have a lot of doctor's appointments at Emory. If at any point he can come home before the transplant, he will be closely monitored by the doctors which will require a lot of trips back and forth to Atlanta. That will cost them a lot of time off work and money for fuel. This money will be used for medication, fuel, food and supplies.

This is a very scary and stressful situation for Cade and his family. I know their all worried and just want their boy healthy and thriving. I would like to see his friends and family come together and help them as they take on this monumental task. If you're not able to help out, we understand, but please be sure to pray for them.